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Oh s**t! I lost my iPhone!

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Last night was the most epic State of Origin game ever. Queensland won, taking out 6 straight series in a row while simultaneously sending off one of the greats of the game, Darren Lockyer. I was there my friends, and it was incredible. My lack of a voice today is proof.

Unfortunately I managed to lose my phone in the taxi on the way home. Goddammit!

The good:

  • Thanks to Apple and their AMAZING Mobile Me service, after we did the initial “ring the phone” (it went to voicemail) we loaded up “Find my iPhone” on C’s iPhone to see if we could locate it. We couldn’t, thus reinforcing that someone had already taken ownership of it and switched it off. Knowing there was stuff on there I didn’t want people to see, I immediately sent through a request to wipe the phone, so the next time someone switches that baby on it’s going to wipe it clean. Awesome.
  • Again, thanks to the Mobile Me service I have a list of all my contacts (totally up to date) online, so I haven’t lost anyone’s numbers.
  • Thanks to gmail sync, I still have a fully up-to-date calendar available online, so I haven’t lost any of my upcoming appointments either.

The bad:

  • I don’t have a phone, that’s annoying.
  • I have lost 1.5 months of my “photo of the day” photos that I hadn’t gotten around to uploading yet. Goddammit.
  • I use that phone for EVERYTHING, so I’m back to going through the process of not having a phone instantly available for my every whim. Now I have to look out the window to check on the weather – urgh!

The ugly:

  • It doesn’t look like I had insurance on the phone; at least from memory Telstra didn’t have it available when getting the plan. I’ll be visiting the Telstra shop tomorrow morning to see what they can do for me.
  • I don’t have rental insurance, which means I can’t even claim my phone on that.
  • I’m possibly going to be up for the cost of a brand new phone, and there’s just on 12 months left on my contract. Fingers crossed they can work out some sort of a deal where I get a new phone for the remaining 12 months and have monthly repayments on my bill. I’m not getting my hopes up though, I doubt they have this available. Worst case scenario I’ll buy my sister’s friend’s iPhone 3GS for $300, and deal with that until I save up the money for a new iPhone (which is most likely never). The thought of going back to a 3GS makes me shudder.

The only blemish on an otherwise incredible evening. Bugger.

Project 365 (2011): 58/365 – Defunct iPhone

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58/365 - Defunct iPhone

Unfortunately before we got on the boat yesterday, Jo accidentally dropped her iPhone. It was wearing a rubber case, which caused it to bounce several times before dropping off the jetty into the water – disaster! As we all know very well, swimming is the one thing that iPhone’s CAN’T do. We fished it out and took out the bits we could in an effort to dry it. Jo is currently keeping it in a box of rice to try and draw the moisture out, but given up and ordered a new one via Apple.

Project 365 (2011): 27/365 – Sleep Cycles iPhone app

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27/365 - Sleep cycles iPhone app

Go to sleeeeep, and goood niiiight…

This is by far one of the best iPhone apps I have ever bought. It’s called Sleep Cycles, you program in what time you want to wake up (mine is 5.30am as per bottom right hand corner), then place the phone face down at the top of your bed. As you sleep, and move during your sleep, your phone keeps track of the movement and determines what level of sleep you’re at – deep sleep, awake etc. When you’re within half an hour of your wake up time it will determine the best time to wake you up (again, depending on the level of sleep you’re at) and start playing music.

It sounds like complete bollocks, but I can assure you I have been waking up so much better with this app. I haven’t had one morning where the alarm has gone off and scared the beejeezus out of me…

The new camera has arrived

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Yesterday at approximately 2pm I heard the magical words echo up from the front desk “I have a delivery for Kelly?” I couldn’t get to the front desk quick enough, and in fact, beat the receptionist to the front desk before she had a chance to dial my number. Jon and Ashley waited in anticipation as I ripped the package open, and they cheered with me as I confirmed it was my brand new Canon 550D DSLR. I think they were more relieved that it meant they wouldn’t have me dancing around the office impatiently crying “why isn’t it here already”.

I went out yesterday and took some pictures and played with the settings, but then today I did what probably no self-respecting geek ever does. I read the manual.

I did what probably no self-respecting geek ever does. I read the manual.

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